There’s a difference between unlocking and actually recruiting a Pokemon in Cafe Mix.
Unlocking them means they’ll start showing up as customers, but you’ll have to work on fulfilling their orders to increase your friendship ranking with them. Once the rating hits the required number of stars, they’ll join your cafe staff.
Fortunately, it’s not as random as it sounds. Once you’ve fulfilled 55 orders, you’ll unlock the Party feature. Once per day, you get a chance to invite two Pokemon to the cafe so you can work on improving friendship levels. The two chosen Pokemon are initially random, but you can spend 50 Golden Apricorns to shuffle them up and try to pull two others.
Pokemon Cafe Mix Pokemon List
Eevee
Plain vanilla Eevee is your starting pal. But it still has a special ability that clears all surrounding icons and Pokemon in a puzzle.
It’s also got an alt costume you can trade Master Mode Points for in the Swap Shop, and as you’d expect, these are just for looks. Costumes don’t alter a Pokemon’s abilities.
Charmander
Unlock requirements: Complete 2 orders Recruitment requirements: 3 stars Skill: Remove Pokemon icons and gimmicks to the right Speciality: Drinks
Minccino
Unlock requirements: Complete 3 orders Recruitment requirements: 6 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks to the left Speciality: Sweets
Snubbull
Unlock requirements: Complete 5 orders Recruitment requirements: 4 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks below Speciality: Small plates
Slurpuff
Unlock requirements: Complete 10 orders, first Cafe Extension Recruitment requirements: 5 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks above Speciality: Sweets
Togepi
Unlock requirements: Complete 25 orders Recruitment requirements: 3 stars Skill: Clears surrounding Pokemon icons and gimmicks, then replaces them with a common Pokemon icon Speciality: Drinks
Munchlax
Unlock requirements: Complete 25 orders Recruitment requirements: 9 stars Skill: Clears surrounding Pokemon icons and gimmicks, then uses Megaphones near other icons Speciality: Entrees
Squirtle
Unlock requirements: Complete 35 orders Recruitment requirements: 9 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks to the right Speciality: Small Plates
Kirlia
Unlock requirements: Complete 45 orders, acquire second Cafe Extension Recruitment requirements: 8 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks diagonally Speciality: Drinks
Starly
Unlock requirements: Complete 55 orders Recruitment requirements: 6 stars Skill: Clears surrounding Pokemon icons and gimmicks, then uses Megaphones above and below in place of other icons Speciality: Sweets
Steenee
Unlock requirements: Complete 65 orders Recruitment requirements: 5 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks above and below Speciality: Entrees
Bulbasaur
Unlock requirements: Complete 75 orders Recruitment requirements: 9 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks in an “X” shape, replacing surrounding icons with a common Pokemon Speciality: Small plates
Stoutland
Unlock requirements: Complete 85 orders, acquire third Cafe Extension Recruitment requirements: 9 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks below, then sets off megaphones for surrounding icons Speciality: Drinks
Meowth
Unlock requirements: Complete 95 orders Recruitment requirements: 9 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks in a block to the left Speciality: Entrees
Jigglypuff
Unlock requirements: Complete 110 orders Recruitment requirements: 9 stars Skill: Clears surrounding Pokemon icons and gimmicks, then replaces other surrounding icons with a common Pokemon Speciality: Sweets
Lucario
Unlock requirements: Complete 130 orders Recruitment requirements: 20 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks in a “+” pattern Speciality: Sweets
Bellossom
Unlock requirements: Complete 150 orders, acquire third Cafe Extension Recruitment requirements: 6 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks above, then uses Megaphones around some icons below Speciality: Drinks
Exeggutor
Unlock requirements: Complete 175 orders Recruitment requirements: 18 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks on both sides and above Speciality: Drinks
Buizel
Unlock requirements: Complete 225 orders Recruitment requirements: 12 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks diagonally Speciality: Sweets
Pikachu and Event Pokemon
As of now, there’s a handful of additional Pokemon you can recruit, but in a different way. Most of them are part of limited-time events that yo have to wait for. If you’ve already missed one and haven’t served that Pokemon at least once, you’re unfortunately out of luck until the events roll around again. Pikachu is a bit different though.
Pikachu
Unlock requirements: Complete day five of the daily login bonuses Recruitment requirements: N/A Skill: Clears surrounding and above Pokemon icons, replacing other surrounding icons with a common Pokemon Speciality: Small plates
Sweets Pikachu
Unlock requirements: Purchase the Pikachu Pack (DLC) Recruitment requirements: N/A Skill: Clears surrounding Pokemon icons and sets of Megaphones around other surrounding icons Speciality: Drinks
Scorbunny
Unlock requirements: Play from July 1 - July 15 Recruitment requirements: 5 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks to the left Speciality: Small plates
Sobble
Unlock requirements: Play from July 15 - July 29 Recruitment requirements: 5 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks below Speciality: Sweets
Dragonite
Unlock requirements: Play from July 29 - August 12 Recruitment requirements: 5 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks to the right. Occurs twice if you link two Cafe Skills Speciality: Entrees
Grookey
Unlock requirements: Play from August 12 - August 26 Recruitment requirements: 5 stars Skill: Clears Pokemon icons and gimmicks to the right Speciality: Sweets
That’s it for our Pokemon Cafe Mix Pokemon list. Now you know everything there is to know about how to recruit these Pokemon, as well as their skills and specialities. We’ll update this guide with new events and in case old event Pokemon make a return, so stay tuned to GameSkinny for more Pokemon Cafe Mix goodness in the coming weeks.